A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - KAZIMIERA AND ANDRZEJ GARBULIŃSKI, STANISŁAW OWCA
Andrzej and Kazimiera Garbuliński, with their eight children, lived where the Germans never ventured: on the outskirts of the village of Czermna. And when, in the early winter of 1940, a Jewish acquaintance, Sara Elfenbein, with her now grown-up son and daughter, knocked on their door at night, the Poles agreed to help. Henela had a hiding place in the house, and Sara and Major stayed in the stable. When food was scarce, the Jews went to Stanisław Owca. And probably all of them would have lived to see the so-called liberation, had it not been for the testimony of the arrested Jewish boy. The Gestapo arrived on 4 April 1944. The Elfenbeins were shot. Stanisław Owca and Andrzej were dealt with in a similar way. Władek, their eldest son, was tortured in Montelupich prison, after which he disappeared. The youngest child of the Garbulińskis was then one year old.
